A great deal of thought is only a substitute for the thoughts that the individual would really find useful at the time.

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

He's no idiot, in fact he's a genius... and that's as far from an idiot as you can get without reaching madness.

The dining hall in our section of campus was like something out of an Ayn Rand novel: big, utilitarian, and impersonal.

Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible.

Being from the Midwest, I would say that I like that East Coast mentality, it's more direct. What you see is what you get.

There are a lot of polls that show that actually Americans have a pretty high opinion of teachers, that Americans think teachers are just about as prestigious as doctors.

I was sixteen and equipped with the appropriate genitalia, so I cleared that hurdle nicely.

The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

The most subversive thing a woman can do is talk about her life as if it really matters.

The 12-step chocolate program: NEVER BE MORE THAN 12 STEPS AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE!